Working in remote or distributed teams can be challenging. Distance and time differences make it more difficult to work together. Where communication tools have improved significantly over the years, they don’t really help us to find out how people think or feel or to establish a collaborative culture. In this interactive free virtual webinar, Ben Linders will explore how we can do virtual agile self-assessments to reflect on the way of working in distributed teams. Playing the Agile self-assessment Game online, teams can dive deeply into how things are going and agree upon actions to improve how the team collaborates and communicates. The Agile Self-assessment Game is used by teams and organizations to self-assess their agility. It uses an engagement model to involve people in the assessment to not impose change on people but instead enables them to pull in ideas for change and apply those in a way that best suits their needs. Join this webinar to learn how to play the Agile self-assessment Game in remote and distributed teams. On November 19-20, Ben Linders will give the online virtual course Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams.

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Virtual Agile Self-assessments in
Remote and Distributed Teams
Agile Actors #learning, Oct 26, 2020
Ben Linders

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Trainer / Coach / Adviser / Author / Speaker
Agile, Lean, Quality & Continuous improvement
Freelance Editor for InfoQ.com
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Books: Valuable Agile Retrospectives Problem? What Problem?
What Drives Quality Self-assessments Continuous Improvement
Games: Agile Self-assessment Game Retrospectives Bingo Impediments
Quality Coaching Cards Agile Testing Cards

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Imposing agile doesn’t work

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Reflect with Agile Self-assessments
Self-assess to improve
 Discuss & Learn
 Engage & Involve
 Experiment
 Take action
Agile journey
Checklists Game

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Agile Self-assessment Game
Started as Agile Coaching Cards
Many game formats/exercises
Expansion Packs for Scrum, DevOps, …
Book: Exercises & Experience Stories
Kanban
Scrum
Business
DevOps
Agile

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Online health self-assessment

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Sketching your Agile Journey

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Sharing Challenges

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Workshop Continuous Improvement
November 19-20: 8 hour virtual interactive course
https://learningactors.com/product/continuous-improvement-in-remote-and-distributed-teams/
Work together remotely
Culture
Autonomy & alignment
Self-assessments
Remote retrospectives
Communication

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Key Takeaways
 Don't impose agile on people, it doesn’t work
 Teams know how to do their work best – trust them to
get the job done
 Self-organization implies that teams should take
responsibility for improving themselves
 You can engage and empower people by supporting
them with self-assessments

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Links
Agile Self-assessments benlinders.com/tools/agile-self-assessments/
Self-assessment Game benlinders.com/game/
Book & cards package benlinders.com/shop/the-agile-self-assessment-game/
Agile Coaching Tools benlinders.com/downloads/
Continuous Improvement in Remote and Distributed Teams – Virtual Course
https://learningactors.com/product/continuous-improvement-in-remote-and-distributed-teams/

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